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Message-ID: <20180308130031.GB3701@kernel.org>
Date:   Thu, 8 Mar 2018 10:00:31 -0300
From:   Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
To:     Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
Cc:     Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>, lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/19] perf tools: Add mem2node object

Em Thu, Mar 08, 2018 at 09:58:49AM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo escreveu:
> We end up leaking entries when what I'm suggesting you to do is to
> not clobber entries with the return of realloc() (doing it this way most
> of the time leads to bugs), but instead store it to a temp var
> (nentries), and if it succeeds, then you know that you can
> set nentries to entries and go ahead with your nicely shrunk block of
> memory.
 
> If it fails, then you continue with the original block of memory, that
> continues to have what you just set up, etc.
 
> Lemme look a third time to your original patch, I must be missing
> something...

I don't think I'm missing anything ;-)

- Arnaldo

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